'''Dorothy Whitelock''' ([[1901]]-[[1982]]) was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and in 1930 went to St Hilda's College, Oxford as a lecturer in English Language. She was appointed to Tutor in 1936 and then a Fellow in [[1937]]. [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] and her both were scholars of Anglo-Saxon poetry and she remained a colleague of Tolkien's until [[1957]] when she became Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. She retired in [[1969]].

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'''Dorothy Whitelock''' ([[1901]]-[[1982]]) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon poetry and history. She was a colleague of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at the [[University of Oxford]] from [[1930]] until [[1957]], when she became Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{CG|I}}, p. 1101</ref>